SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2005
Saturday ONLY Workshops

WK-1 Biophysical Ecology at Leaf and Canopy Scales: Measurement of Water Status, Stomatal Conductance and Leaf Area Index Bryan Wacker, Tamsin Campbell, Derek Harris (Organizers) 8 AM – 5 PM

WK-2 Teaching Ecology in Urban Gardens Marianne Krasny, Mark Whitmore, Keith Tidball, Laurence Baudelet (Organizers) 9 AM – 4 PM

WK-3 Ecology Connections: A Website for Biology Teachers Michael Mappin, Garland Jonker (Organizers) 1 PM – 5 PM

WK-4 Canadian National Vegetation Classification: Forests & woodlands ( Endorsed by ESA's Vegetation Classification Panel ) Ken Baldwin, Jean-Pierre Saucier, Don Faber-Langendoen, Steve Curtis (Organizers) Saturday 1 PM – 5 PM

Saturday/Sunday Workshop
Note: Both days are Required as part of your registration

WK-5 Command Spanish®: Survival Spanish for the NON-native speaker scientist in the field ( Endorsed by ESA's International Affairs Section) Sybil Jackson-Carter, Jacoby Carter (Organizers) 8 AM - 5 PM

WK-4 Canadian National Vegetation Classification: Forests & woodlands Ken Baldwin, Jean-Pierre Saucier, Don Faber-Langendoen, Steve Curtis (Organizers) Sunday 8 PM – 5 PM

WK-5 Command Spanish®: Survival Spanish for the NON-native speaker scientist in the field Endorsed by ESA's International Affairs Section ) Sybil Jackson-Carter, Jacoby Carter (Organizers) 8 AM - 5 PM

Full Day Sunday Workshops

WK-6 An introduction to state-space models for population viability analysis 8 AM - 5 PM Elizabeth Holmes, Chris Jordan (Organizers) Off site at computer lab (McGill)

WK-7 Interpreting fire history from sediment records of macroscopic charcoal: theory, analytical techniques, and future directions 8 AM – 5 PM Endorsed by ESA's Paleoecology Section 8 AM - 5 PM Philip Higuera, Jason Lynch, Daniel Gavin (Organizers)

WK -9 Cyberinfrastructure for managing analyzing and sharing ecological data and information 8 AM – 5 PM William Michener, Samantha Romanello (Organizers)

WK -10 Combining Great Lake to global spatial scales with quick to extended times for ecological simulation 8 AM – 5 PM Jerry Olsen, Wilfred Post, Changhui Peng (Organizers)

WK-11 Ecology Education: Global Cooperation and Perspectives 8 AM – 5 PM Keith Tidball, Marianne Krasney (Organizers)

WK 12 Teaching and Learning ecology in the schoolyards 8 AM – 5 PM Andrea Troncoso, Juan Armesto (Organizers)

WK-13 BY INVITATION ONLY Sturgeon in the Caspian Sea: scaling up from individuals to population estimates to conservation status 8 AM – 5 PM Sandy Tartowski, Tom Butler (Organizers)

WK-14 Pathways to scientific teaching: Design, implement and analyze Endorsed by ESA's Education Section 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Diane Ebert May, Doug Luckie, Janet Batzli (Organizers)

WK-15 Surviving Grad School: Balancing the Demands of Teaching and Research Endorsed by ESA's Education Section and Education and Human Resources Committee 8:30 AM – 5 PM Kathy Williams, John Moore, George Middendorf (Organizers)

Half Day Sunday AM Workshops

WK-16 Lessons from large-scale manipulations of ecosystems and landscapes 8 AM - 12:15 PM Jiquen Chen, Thomas Crow (Organizers)

WK-17 How to do collaborative ecological teaching and research using web pages and online resources. 8 AM – Noon Carolyn Thomas, Bob Pohlad (Organizers)

WK-18 LANDFIRE: Scientific foundations for multiscale fire, fuels and risk assessments 8 AM – Noon Ayn Shlisky, Jim Smith (Organizers)

WK- 19 Community to the globe: Landscape analysis using geospatial tools 8 AM – Noon Marguerite Madden, Donna Johnson (Organizers)

WK-20 Step up, speak up: Policy training works Sponsored by ESA's Public Affairs Office 1 PM – 5 PM Nadine Lymn, Laura Lipps, Adrienne Sponberg (Organizers)

WK-21 Indicators of rangeland sustainability: Are they applicable internationally and/or at multiple spatial scales 1 PM – 5 PM Kristie Maczko, R. Dennis Child, John Mitchell (Organizers)

WK-22 Moving science beyond the Ivory Tower: Working with the media 1 PM – 5 PM AM Cynthia Barakatt, Jessica Brown, Diana Wall, Pamela Matson (Organizers )

WK-23 Helping ecology faculty do research on their teaching with TIEE 1 PM – 5 PM Endorsed by ESA's Education Sectio n 1 PM - 5 PM Charlene D'Avanzo, Bruce Grant, Jason Taylor (Organizers

WK-25 Advances in cyberinfrastructure for ecological studies Endorsed by PRAGMA – Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly and ESA's Long Term Studies Section 1 PM – 5 PM John Vande Castle, Pamela Griego, Peter Arzberger (Organizers)

Public Plenary 5 PM - 6:30 PM
Spirit of the Place – Opening Blessing
La Baratte au Buerre – Traditional French Canadian Chansons
Public Plenary Address Cristian Samper, Director of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

Symposium 1 The boreal forest and global change. Edward Johnson, Kiyoko Miyanishi, Kathleen Ruckstuhl (Organizers) ( Endorsed by ESA's Vegetation Section and IAVS/NA and ESA's Canada Chapter)

Symposium 2 Soil Biodiversity: Scaling from microbe to ecosystem. Alastair Fitter, Caroline Keenan, Hefin Jones (Organizers) ( Sponsored by the British Ecological Society )

Symposium 3 Linking ecological processes and environmental impacts across scales: Coastal ecology and energy development in the Caspian Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Sandy Tartkowski, Tom Butler and Vladimir Bashkin (Organizers) ( Endorsed by ESA's International Affairs Section )

Monday Morning Organized Oral Sessions 8 AM -11:30 AM

OOS-1 Appreciating the impacts of oxidative stress: From genes to ecosystems. Howard Neufeld, Nancy Grulke (Organizers) ( Endorsed by ESA's Physiological Ecology Section ) Mercury cycles: Sources, mass balances, bioaccumulation, and options to manage affected systems.

OOS-2 Measuring landscape connectivity: Tool for species conservation. Pavel Kindlemann, Francoise Burel, Jacques Baudry (Organizers)

OOS-3 Mutualists as parasites: How mutualistic are mutualists, and why? Jeff Powell, John Klironomos, Ben Wolfe (Organizers)

OOS-4 Tropical cyclone disturbance and forest dynamics at multiple temporal scales: Results from six long-term studies in the new and old worlds. Teng-Chiu Lin, Hen-Biau King, Steven Hamburg (Organizers) ( Endorsed by the International Long-Term Ecological Research Network, the US LTER International Committee and the Taiwan Forest Research Institute)

OOS-5 Elly Best, J.G.Wiener, D. Mergler (Organizers) ( Sponsored by the Systemwide Water Resources Research Program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers .)

OOS-6 Development of landscape heterogeneity at multiple scales in wetlands Barry Warner, Arnold van der Valk (Organizers)

Monday Morning Contributed Paper Oral Sessions: 8 AM -11:30 AM
Schedule will be available in Mid-May

Lunch Break Workshops 1:30 AM – 1:15 PM

WK-26 SEEDS Program: How ESA members can get involved Katherine Hoffman, Melissa Jurgensen-Armstrong (Organizers) 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM

WK-27 Developing Indicators and Ecosystem Services in a Framework that Integrates Ecological and Economic Concepts . Ted Heintz, Rhonda Kranz (Organizers) 11:30 PM – 1:15 PM

Special Session 1 . Ecological sustainability in a world of constant change: Developing a new research agenda for ESA. Gaius Shaver, Clifford Duke, Nancy Grimm (Organizers) Monday from 1 PM - 2:30 PM

Special Session 2 Sense of Place: Indigenous homelands of eastern Canada. Endorsed by ESA's Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section Robin Kimmerer, Jesse Ford (Organizers) Monday from 1 PM - 2:30 PM

Special Session 3 . Improv 101: Ease Those Presentation Jitters Annie Drinkard, Nadine Lymn (Organizers) 1 PM – 2:30 PM

Special Session 4. Diversifying Ecology. Jason Taylor, Melissa Jurgensen-Armstrong (Organizers) Monday from 1 PM - 2:30 PM

Special Session 5 An integrated trends analysis network. Douglas Muchoney, John Campbell, Thomas Loveland (Organizers) Monday from 1 PM - 2:30 PM

Special Session 6 Writing manuscripts for publication. Ruth Yanai, Amber Knowlden (Organizers) Monday from 1 PM - 2:30 PM

Special Session 7: Social capacity development for environmental management: International cooperation and ecological solutions. Endorsed by INTECOL, Asia-Pacific Regional Chapter of IALE (International Association for Landscape Ecology and COE Project of Hiroshima University, supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. Sun-Kee Hong, Nobukazu Nakagoshi (Organizers) 1:30 PM – 5 PM

Monday Afternoon Organized Oral Sessions 1:30 PM - 5 PM

OOS-7 Ecological effects of the Chernobyl disaster: Genes to ecosystems. James Morris, Timothy Mousseau, Miguel Goni (Organizers) ( Endorsed by the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF )

OOS-8 Contaminants in aquatic systems: Individual effects and community consequences. Jake Kerby, Rick Relyea (Organizers)

OOS-9 Multiscale advanced raster map analysis for ecosystem health monitoring, assessment, and

management in the 21 st Century. Ganapati Patil, Wayne Myers (Organizers) ( Endorsed by the Editors of Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Multiscale Advanced Raster Map Analysis and EcoHealth )

OOS -10 Reducing habitat fragmentation by roads: A comparison of measures and scales.Jochen Jaeger, Günther Jeager, Lenore Fahrig, Wolfgang Haber (Organizers)

OOS-11 Hydraulic limitations in vascular plants. Frank Berninger, Luc Lauzon, Eero Nikinmaa (Organizers)

Monday Afternoon Contributed Paper Oral Sessions: 1:30 PM - 5 PM
Schedule will be available in Mid-May

Afternoon ESA Opening Plenary , Awards Ceremony, and MacArthur Lecture 2:40 PM - 5 PM

The Power of 10: Multiple Scales
Welcome, Introductions and Acknowledgements – Opened by President Melillo
President's Remarks – on the occasion of ESA's 90 th Anniversary
Introduction of Incoming President – Nancy Grimm
Introduction of Past ESA Presidents – Celebration of 90 th Annual Meeting
The ESA Awards Ceremony
MacArthur Lecture – Dr. May Berenbaum

Monday Poster Presentations
Poster Pub, Presentations and Exhibits 5 PM - 6:30 PM
Schedule of posters available in Mid-May

Evening Sessions 8 PM to 10 PM unless otherwise noted

EV-A What Editors Want: Do's and Don't for Submitting your Manuscript. Endorsed by the Student Section Elizabeth Harp, Sue Silver, David Baldwin (Organizers) Endorsed by the Student Section 6:30 PM - 10 PM

Evening INTECOL Opening Plenary 8 PM – 9:30 PM
Welcome, Introductions and Acknowledgements – Opened by President John Lee David Suzuki Keynote Talk

EV-1 - Migration in a Changing World 7:20 PM - 10 PM Christopher Caudill, Christopher Peery (Organizers)

EV-2 Use of indicators on disturbed lands William Goran, Harold Balback, Robert Holst (Organizers) 8 PM - 10 PM

EV-3 Discussion: Issues in Ethics and Intellectual Property Rights in partnership with First Nations peoples Robin Kimmerer, Jesse Ford (Organizers) 8 PM - 10 PM

EV-4 Approaches and Challenges of Using Large-scale Databases and Digital Libraries in Environmental Education Robert Bohannan, Alan Berkowitz, Andy Anderson (Organizers) 8 PM -10 PM

EV-5 Ecological Complexity: Unifying Ecological Theory across Scales Ban Lian (Larry) Li, Lael Parrott (Organizers) 8 PM – 10 PM

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2005
Tuesday Morning Symposia 8 AM -11:30 AM

Symposium 4 Ecosystem ecology at the watershed scale: Linking biogeochemical cycles across the terrestrial - aquatic divide. Emily Bernhardt, Maury Valett (Organizers)

Symposium 5. Marine macroecology. Jon Witman, Kaustuv Roy (Organizers)

Symposium 6. Pathways to scientific teaching in ecology education Charlene D'Avanzo, Michael Mappin (Organizers)

Special Session

Special Session 8: Spatial statistics at multiple scales. Endorsed by ESA's Statistical Ecology Section Pierre Legendre, Marie-Josée Fortin (Organizers) 8 AM – 11:30 AM

Tuesday Morning Organized Oral Sessions 8 AM to 11:30 AM

OOS-12 Multiple time scales of ecological processes: Results from the LTER Network. James Gosz, Robert Waide (Organizers)

OOS-13 Gas exchange and global change in peatlands: From soil to satellite. Juul Limpens, Gabriela Schaepman, Mats Nilsson, Monique Heijmans (Organizers)

OOS-14 Ecology of arable plants: Linking invertebrate and weed population dynamics.John Cussans, Alice Mauchline, Katherine Gross (Organizers) ( Endorsed by the Canadian Weed Science Society )

OOS-15 A toolbox for fire ecology: Mechanisms linking fire behavior and ecological effect. Sean Michaletz, Rodney Weber (Organizers) ( Endorsed by ESA's Southeast and Rocky Mountain Chapters )

OOS-16 Allelopathy: Biochemical interactions among plants affecting community structure, exotic invasions and evolutionary theory. Azim Mallik, Ragan Callaway (Organizers) Endorsed by the International Allelopathy Society (IAS), the Chinese Academy of Science and the Eastern Asian Federation of Ecological Societies

OOS-17 Coastal indicators of ecological condition: Integration of spatial scales. Gerald Niemi, Hans Paerl, Barbara Levinson (Organizers) ( Endorsed by EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP).

OOS-18 Ecological guidelines for management of water quantity and quality in agricultural landscapes. Lech Ryszkowski, Richard Lowrance (Organizers)

Tuesday Morning Contributed Paper Oral Sessions : 8 AM - 11:30 AM
Schedule available in Mid-May

Lunch Break Workshops 1:30 AM – 1:15 PM

WK-28 Opportunities for Funding in Environmental Biology at NSF Alan Tessier, James Morris (Organizers) 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM

WK-29 : The 2010 biodiversity target: Implications for ecologists David Ainsworth (Organizer) 11:30 AM -1:15 PM

WK-30 Multi-scale cyberinfrastructuer to support biodiversity research and conservation Sandy Andelman, Leslie Allfree, Thomas Lacher (Organizers) 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM

WK-31 Models as a tool for integration of education and collaborative research Holly Ewing, Camille Parrish, Maria Uriarte, Kathleen Weathers (Organizers) 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM

WK-32 Help design EcoBeaker 3.0: Discussion on the next version of our widely used ecology teaching software Eli Meir, Susan Maruca (Organizers) 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM

Tuesday Afternoon Symposia 1:30 PM - 5 PM

Symposium 7 . Multi-scale integration for ecological sustainability: Approaches and applications. Rusong Wang, Jianguo (Jack) Liu (Organizers) ( Endorsed by INTECOL and the Ecological Society of China )

Symposium 8 . Ecosystem response and recovery: Assessing the 1991 Canada-US Air Quality Agreement. Richard Haeuber, Rona Birnbaum, Kerri Timoffee (Organizers) ( Endorsed by the Institute of Ecosystems Studies, Millbrook, New York and the Canadian Environmental Protection Service .)

Symposium 9. Spatial heterogeneity in urban ecosystems: Integration and scaling in coupled natural-human systems. Mary Cadenasso, Morgan Grove, Steward Pickett (Organizers) ( Endorsed by ESA's Urban Ecosystem Ecology Section)

Special Session

Special Session 9: Restoration of Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq. Curtis Richardson, Barry Warner (Organizers) ( Endorsed by INTECOL ) 1:30 PM – 5 PM

Tuesday Afternoon Organized Oral Sessions 1:30 PM - 5 PM

OOS-19 Bat habitat use in eastern North American temperate forests: Site, stand, and landscape effects. Robert Brooks, Mark Ford (Organizers)

OOS-20 Disease in ecosystems: Reciprocal interactions between pathogens and ecosystems. Felicia Keesing, Richard Ostfeld, Valerie Eviner (Organizers)

OOS-21 Implications of disturbance on boreal peatland carbon cycling: From sites to landscape-scale carbon budgets. R. Kelman Wieder, Kimberli Scott, Dale Vitt (Organizers)

OOS-22 Comparative ecology of tropical trees: Linking physiology to dynamics and distribution.

Sean Thomas, Kyle Harms (Organizers) ( Endorsed by the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute )

OOS-23 The use of spatially explicit data in ecological investigations. Kelvin Conrad, Barbara Smith, Lisa Rew(Organizers)

OOS-24 Conducting global multi-scale integrated environmental management and research using site-specific research: Lessons learned from the ILTER. Hen-Biau King, Patrick Bourgeron (Organizers)

OOS-25 Dynamics of invasive plants: Individuals to ecosystems. Tiffany Knight, John Drake (Organizer) ( Endorsed by ESA's Plant Population Ecology Section )

Tuesday Afternoon Contributed Paper Oral Sessions : 1:30 PM - 5 PM
Schedule available in Mid-May

Tuesday Poster Presentations 5 PM - 6:30 PM

Poster Pub, Presentations and Exhibits
Schedule available in Mid-May

Tuesday Evening Sessions 8 PM -10 PM unless otherwise noted

EV-6 Writers and Poets Evening Organized by Louis Lefebvre for the Montreal Local Host Committee – Featured readings by naturalist journalist and poet, Richard Sommer, Quebec novelist/columnist, Louis Hamelin, biologist/novelist Louis Lefebvre and biologist/poet Jan Conn. Meet the Authors and book signing: 7:30 PM - 8 PM. Program: 8 PM - 10 PM.

EV-7 Assessing the future of North America's natural ecosystems using the latest climate and vegetation models 7:30 PM to 10 PM Gary Benson, David Price (Organizers )

EV-8 Can the Mesopotamian Marsh's Garden of Eden in Iraq be restored Curt Richardson, Barry Warner (Organizers)

EV-9 Ecology Teaching in K-12 Schools: Status and Vision ESA's Education and Human Resources Vice President's Emerging Issues Forum Alan Berkowitz, Carol Brewer (Organizers)

EV-10 International Polar Year 2007-2008 Town Meeting Endorsed by the World Wildlife Society Rachel Schiflett, Paul Cutler (Organizers)

EV-11 An Ecologist's Guide to the Galaxy Endorsed by ESA's International Affairs Section Jacoby Carter, Deborah Norling, Sandy Tartkowski (Organizers)

EV-12 Empowering ecologists with informatics education and training Sponsored by NSF IGERT Deana Pennington, Julie Jones, Samantha Romanello (Organizers)

Symposium 10 The invasion paradox: Reconciling biodiversity and invasion patterns across spatial scales. Dov Sax, G. David Tilman, Thomas Stohlgren (Organizers)

Symposium 11 Global land science: Dynamics of the coupled human-environment system. Dennis Ojima, Emilio Moran (Organizers)

Symposium 12 Bridging the divide: Bringing theory into practice in forest biodiversity conservation. Lisa Schulte, Robert Mitchell, Malcolm Hunter, Jr, Jerry Franklin, R. Kevin McIntyre, Brian Palik (Organizers)

Special Session

Special Session 10: Building an ecological observatory network for regional- to continental-scale research: NEON, the National Ecological Observatory Network. Endorsed by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) William Michener, Jeffrey Goldman, Bruce Hayden (Organizers) 8 AM – 11:30 AM

Wednesday Morning Organized Oral Sessions 8 AM -11:30 AM

OOS-26 From microbes to ecosystems: How do we really make the connections? Josh Schimel, Serita Frey (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA's Soil Ecology Section and the Soil Ecology Society

OOS-27 Emerging ecoinformatic tools and accomplishments for synthetic ecological research across scales. Jennifer Dunne, Neo Martinez, Tamara Romanuk (Organizers)

OOS-28 Ecological processes important in the responses of bird populations to environmental change driven by agriculture. Ken Norris, Emily Chambers, Juliet Vickery (Organizers)

OOS-29 Protecting ecosystem services through private sector partnerships and the capital markets. Bruce Kahn, Orie Loucks (Organizers)

OOS-30 Modeling movement at multiple scales. John Fryxell, Monica Turner, Mark Boyce (Organizers)

OOS-31 Structure and function of tropical rainforest canopies. Michael Ryan, David Clark (Organizers)

OOS-32 Forest disturbance regimes in the circumboreal forest zone: Natural variability and implications for forest management and biodiversity conservation. Sylvie Gauthier, Timo Kuuluvainen, Daniel Kneeshaw (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA's Applied Ecology Section

Wednesday Morning Contributed Paper Oral Sessions: 8 AM -11:30 AM
Schedule available in Mid-May

Lunch Break Workshops 1:30 AM – 1:15 PM

WK-33 Protecting ecosystem services through private sector partnerships and the capital markets Bruce Kahn, Orie Loucks (Organizers) 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM

WK-34 Moderated roundtable luncheon discussion: Building an ecological observatory network for regional- to continental-scale research: NEON, the National Ecological Observatory Network William Michener, Bruce Hayden, Jeffrey Goldman (Organizers) 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM

WK-35 Environmental Justice & ESA: A Vision for Research, Education and Outreach Discussion Leanne Jablonski, Tara Poling, Goerge Middendorf, Charles Nilon (Orgaznizers) 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM

WK-36. Scientific Teaching in Ecology Education What is it, why do it, and how can we help faculty succeed at it? 11:30 AM to 1:15 PM Charlene D'Avanzo, Michael Mappin (Organizers) 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM

Wednesday Afternoon Symposia 1:30 PM - 5 PM

Symposium 13 Prediction and prioritization of future invasive species. Richard Mack, Mark Lonsdale (Organizers) Endorsed by the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP ).

Symposium 14 Ecological impacts of Asia on global sustainability at multiple scales. Young Choi, Shili Miao. Changhui Peng (Organizers) ( Endorsed by ESA's Asian Ecology Section )

Symposium 15 The bringing together of professional ecologists and educators with citizen science. Karen Yee, Peter Marra (Organizers) ( Endorsed by ESA's Education Section )

Special Session

Special Session 11: Delivering on the promise of ecological science to improve land management: Ecological site descriptions. Endorsed by ESA's Rangeland Section and the Society for Range Management Joel Brown, Jeff Herrick (Organizers) 1:30 PM - 5 PM

Wednesday Afternoon Organized Oral Sessions 1:30 PM - 5 PM

OOS-33 Restoring and designing ecosystems for a crowded planet: Provision of ecosystem services or mere window dressing? M. Luisa Martinez, Margaret Palmer (Organizers) ( Endorsed by Ecoscience, Laval University)

OOS-34 Incorporating ecological processes at many scales into biogeochemical and global climate change models. Wilfred Post, Jerry Olson, Changhui Peng (Organizers)

OOS-35 Mutualism, competition, and invasion: Applying ecological theory to agriculture. Laurie Drinkwater, Jude Maul, Deborah Letourneau, Katie Monsen (Organizers) ( Endorsed by ESA's Agroecology Section )

OOS-36 Role of microbial communities in mediating biogeochemical response to disturbance. Erica Smithwick, Monica Turner (Organizers) ( Endorsed by ESA's Biogeosciences Section )

OOS-37 Post-fire conversion of forest to non-forest: Do we need new theory? Randy Balice, Bill Romme, Thomas Swetnam (Organizers)

OOS-38 Sensors and sensor networks in ecology. Stan Wullschleger , Robert Jackson, Todd Dawson(Organizers)

OOS-39 Consequences of dispersal and colonization: What happens when communities are opened? Carla Guthrie, Donal Yee (Organizers)

Wednesday Afternoon Contributed Paper Oral Sessions: 1:30 PM - 5 PM
Schedule will be available in Mid-May

Wednesday Poster Presentations 5 PM - 6:30 PM

Poster Pub, Presentations and Exhibits
Schedule will be available in Mid-May

Wednesday Evening Sessions 8 PM - 10 PM unless otherwise noted

EV-B (Ticketed Evening Session) Quick Response to Natural Disasters Gary Barrett, Diane Wickland, Kevin Erwin (Organizers) Sponsored by ESA's Professional Certification Board – Panel presentations include Debra Peters, M.A. Sanjayan, Kevin Erwin

EV-13 Delivering on the promise of ecological science to improve land management: Ecological site descriptions, an informal discussion Endorsed by ESA's Rangeland Section Linda Wallace, Sam Fuhlendorf (Organizers)

EV-14 How to succeed in ecology: Advice from current and aspiring eminent ecologists Endorsed by ESA's Student Section Elizabeth Harp, Alan Wilson, Deron Burkepile, Tiffany Troxler Gann (Organizers)

EV-15 The role of ecology in poverty reduction and international development Christina Rumbaitis del Rio, Fabrice De Clerck, J. Carter Ingram (Organizers)

EV-16 Philosophy and history of ecology: Their use and misuse Kurt Jax, Thomas Potthast, Astrid Schwarz (Organizers)

EV-17 Testing ecological hypotheses with paleo-data Sarah Finkelstein, Konrad Gajewskii (Organizers)

EV-18 Long-Term Ecological Changes across China's Rural Landscapes Earle Ellis, Linzhang Yang, Hua Ouyang, Xu Cheng (Organizers)

EV-19 Integrating water recources, biodiversity, and land use management for the implementation of a strategic action plan program for the Pantanal Wetland of Brazil and upper Paraguay Nelson da Franca Ribeiro dos Anjos, Humberto Cardoso Gonçalves, Paulo Varella Neto, Cleber José Rodrigues Alho (Organizers )

EV-20 Ecology and Ecological Economics: Symbiosis for a Sustainable Future Christina Tonitto, Karin Limburg (Organizers) Sponsored by the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics )

THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2005
Thursday Morning Symposia 8 AM - 11:30 AM

Symposium 16 Incorporating trophic diversity into the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning debate: Lessons from aquatic ecosystems. Peter McIntyre, Kristin France, J. Emmett Duffy, Alexander Flecker (Organizers) ( Endorsed by ESA's Aquatic Ecology Section)

Symposium 17 Species range dynamics: Past, present, and future. Jason McLachlan, John Williams (Organizers) ( Endorsed by ESA's Paleoecology Section)

Symposium 18 Linking local, regional and global ecological changes across densely populated landscapes. Erle Ellis, Peter Verburg, Richard Houghton (Organizers) ( Endorsed by ESA's Mid-Atlantic Chapter )

Special Session:

Special Session 12: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Part I: A synthesis of core findings. Endorsed by the Convention on Biological Diversity Elena Bennett, Hal Mooney (Organizers) 8 AM - 11:30 AM

Thursday Morning Organized Oral Session 8 AM - 11:30 AM

OOS-40 Understory and epiphytic vegetation as indicators of the ecological integrity of managed forests. Sybille Haeussler, Sophie Gachet, Yves Bergeron, Ellen MacDonald (Organizers)

OOS-41 Ecological responses to precipitation: Scaling patterns and processes from the genome to the ecosystem. Michael Loik, Stanley Smith (Organizers)

OOS-42 Applying ecological theories to multiple spatio-temporal scales and to different landscapes in Europe. Joerg Loeffler, Uta Steinhardt (Organizers)

OOS-43 Complex consequences of spatial subsidies to food webs. Johanna Kraus, Wendy Anderson (Organizers)

OOS-44 Linking the practice of stream restoration with the science of stream ecology.

Paul Mayer, Joe Williams, Sujay Kaushal (Organizers)

OOS-45 Evolution in metacommunities: A new framework for species coexistence. Mark Urban, Mathew Leibold (Organizers)

OOS – 46 Ecological indicators at multiple scales. Felix Muller, Eric Hyatt (Organizers)

Thursday Morning Contributed Paper Oral Sessions: 8 AM - 11:30 AM
Schedule available in Mid-May

Lunchbreak Workshop 11:30 AM – 1:15 pm

WK-37 Integrating diverse data to understand species range dynamics – Facilitated Discussion following Symposium Endorsed by ESA's Paleoecology Section Jason McLachlan, John Williams (Organizers)

Thursday Afternoon Symposia 1:30 PM - 5 PM

Symposium 19 Spatial nonlinearities and cross scale interactions: Cascading effects in the Earth system. Debra Peters, Brandon Bestelmeyer (Organizers)

Symposium 20 Evolution on ecological time scales. Andrew Hendry, Denis Réale, Gregor Fussmann (Organizers)

Symposium 21 Resource pulses in space and time: Linking species, communities and ecosystems. Louie Yang, Michael Vanni, Weston Nowlin, Kenneth Schmidt (Organizers)

Special Session

Special Session 13 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Part II: Frontiers in multi-scale assessments of ecosystem services. Endorsed by the Convention on Biological Diversity Steve Carpenter, Walt Reid (Organizers) 1:30 PM – 5 PM

Thursday Afternoon Organized Oral Sessions 1:30 PM - 5 PM

OOS-47 Insights, challenges, and future directions in modeling forest dynamics at multiple scales.

Chris Tripler, Charles Canham, Christian Messier, Michael Papaik (Organizers)

OOS-48 The fate of nitrogen inputs to terrestrial ecosystems: Results from enriched 15 N stable isotopic studies. Michelle Mack, Pamela Templer, Knute Nadelhoffer (Organizers)

OOS-49 Scaling species abundance, distribution and diversity: From pattern to process. William Kunin, Helen Lewis (Organizers)

OOS-50 Dynamics of disturbed and undisturbed tropical rain forests. Andreas Huth, Juergen Groeneveld (Organizers )

OOS-51 Predictability of vegetation dynamics: From quadrats to landscapes, from years to decades. Mark Fulton, Paul Harcombe (Organizers)

Thursday Afternoon Contributed Paper Oral Sessions: 1:30 PM - 5 PM
Schedule available in Mid-May

Thursday Poster Presentations 5 PM - 6:30 PM
Poster Pub, Presentations and Exhibits
Schedule available in Mid-May

Friday Morning Symposia 8 AM - 11:30 AM

Symposium 22 Qualitatively wider scope and failed models: New paradigms for tired old myths. Timothy Allen (Organizer)

Symposium 23 . Comparative plant ecology as a tool for integrating across scales. Bill Shipley (Organizer) ( Sponsored by the Annals of Botany )

Symposium 24. Bridging the gap between theory and empiricism in ecology. Priyanga Amarasekare, Michael Neubert (Organizer) Endorsed by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)

Special Session

Special Session 14 Scaling the history and future of Pacific Northwest human marine ecosystems: From Promethean infinity to nothingness? Endorsed by ESA's SEEDS Program and the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting Mimi Lam, Roberto Gonzalez-Plaza (Organizers) 8 AM -11:30 AM

Friday Organized Oral Sessions 8 AM - 11:30 AM

OOS-52 Casting light on nocturnal stomatal and canopy conductance. Nathan Phillips, Margaret Barbour (Organizers)

OOS-53 Days to decades and meters to miles: Exploring community dynamics across scales, taxa, and habitats. Jeff Houlahan, C. Scott Findlay (Organizers)

Friday Oral Contributed Paper Sessions 8 AM - 11:30 AM
Schedule available in Mid-May

Posters and Pastries 9 AM – 11 AM
Late-Breaking and Newsworthy Posters

Special Session 15 Undergraduate Student Posters in the US and Canada Val Smith (Organizer)

TICKETED Closing Brunch Plenary 11:30 AM – 1 PM
Summary of Meeting by Senior Ecologists (Organized by Program Chairs)